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Get started2 Borlases Cottages is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Waltham St. Lawrence, Reading, Reading (RG10 0JY). It has a recorded floor area of 103 m² (around 1109 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2017) shows an F (score 28), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on b30k.
Sale prices here have outpaced Reading HPI: 3.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £847,000 is 16.8% above the 2021 sale price. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2007. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £725,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
2 Borlases Cottages's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Replacement front porch
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£847,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 3.3% per year over 4 years.
£725,000
Growth on file: 3.3% per year over 4 years.
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.6dB

12 March 2021Most recent
£725,000
+13.3%over 3 years18 May 2017
£640,000
Median price across the last 1 sales in RG10 0JY: £415,000 (2006–2006).
RG10 0JU
The Bell — bus stop.
Closest school
1.6 km
Waltham St Lawrence Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.6dB
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